Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-25
PRAYER OR PROPHECY.

a Remarkable Conversation with Lincoln
Reported By an Ex-OathOnc Priest
By Judge Stephen r Moore of Kankakee, ILL.,
The conservative and well-timed article
concerning presidential candidates by the
Rev. DIR. R NJ Hatfield, in recent issue
of the Journal, calls to my mind q most
remarkable passage found in book lately
published by Father ChiniquY, an ex
priest of Rome, but Presbyterian min
lister since 1860. Father Cniniquy was an
intimate friend of President Lincoln, who
was his lawyer, and he has spent twelve
years OF his life investigating the mystic
rious and secret circumstances connected
with the horrible crime which deprived
the country of her greatest hero, and
changed our joys of our national triumph
in war into unspeaks0le desOlation tie
14th day of April, 1865.
And what is the result of that investi-
CATION? Every Am rlcsn citizen should
resd the facts collected by Father Clini-
Guy and Judge for himself. He has col
Iected a remarkable array of facts on the
SIS assiuation Of the President and his
cabinet He follows Booth and Surratt,
Harold and Payne from the formation of
the conspiracy to the LAST act in the trag-
edy. He publishes many facts never be-
| fore given to the public. He shows by
evidence which can not be controverted,
| by aff1davits of living witnesses, that the
very daV of the assassination, in ST.
Joseph, Mimi, st 6 O'Clock in the evening,
! it was publicly talked of that Secretary
of State Seward and President Lincoln
| had Just been asssssinated. At that time
there was no railroad lines nearer than
| forty miles, nor any telegraph offices
nearer tnAn eighty miles from ST. Joseph.
1t would make this article too long to
How the evidence which Father
| ChiuiQuy has gathered and lately pub
| lished concerning the awful crime OF
Booth, show Dg how it was known and
publicly talked of in a remote village of
Minnesota three and one-half hours before
| it occurred in Washington.
The last meeting Father ChiniquY had
with President Lincoln was Jane 8, 1864.
| He told Father Chiniquy that he would
not live "to eat the fruits OF that peace
for which l am longing with such an IN
speakable desire" "There is still but
solemn voice. said the President,
| (Which tells me that I will see those
things only from long distance, and that
| will be among the dead when the nation
| those awful trials will cross the Jordan
and dwell in that land of promise, where
peace, industry, happiness and liberty
will make every one happy"
At the close of this interview President
Lincoln uttered his remarkable prophecy
or prayer, which can be placed among the
most sublime words ever fallen from
mans ps:
"But Just as the Lord heard no MUIR
muir from the lips of Noses when He told
him that ne had to lie before crossing the
Jordan, for the sins of his people, SO /
nope and pray that He will hear no muir
mur from me when fall for my nations
sake. The only two favors ask Of the Lord
ere: First, that mxY die for the sacred
cause in which am engaged, and while l
am the standard bearer OF the rights and
liberties of my Country The second
favor that I ask from God is, that my
dear son r lbert, when 1 am gone, will be
one of those who shall lift up that flag of
liberty which shall cover my TOMB and
carry it with honor and fidelity to The end
of his life, as his father did, surrounded
by the millions who will be called with
him t. isht and die for the defense and
honor of our country"
Has that sublime prayer been heard 10
heaven and is it about TO be answer
among men? Public sentiments uDmls-
takably pointing that way. Will Robert
Lincoln be chosen by G ID to lift up the
flag of liberty from his msrtyred fathers
tomb to carry 1t at the head of the ma
tioC? Millions Of Americas voters an
sWer, "He shall"